Over the last decade, OHRP has grown from having one regular staff member dedicated to campus-wide diversity programming in 1992 to our current size of four regular staff members, four contract staff members, and five graduate assistants who are dedicated to campus-wide and constituent focused diversity programming made possible through the Diversity Initiative, and grants from the Ford Foundation, and the Hewlett Packard Foundation. We also have work study students and interns who come to work with us on a variety of duties including regular administrative support and diversity programming.

We pride ourselves in offering a work place that is congenial, that models an alternative office hierarchy in its Multicultural Organizational Development, and works hard to walk the talk.

OUR CURRENT STAFF

There are also several Graduate Assistants and Part-Time Staff who work in the Office in all of our various diversity related programs including sexual harassment prevention training, diversity facilitation, and the intergroup dialogue program.

CAMPUS SERVICE

Memberships on Committees
All OHRP staff are or have been members of a number of a university-wide as well as unit and/or college/departmental committees, both sustaining and ad hoc.

University-Wide Sustaining

Equity Council
Equity Council Equity Conference Committee
Senate Human Relations Sub-Committee
Senate Campus Affair Sub-Committee
President's Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues
President's Commission on Women's Issues
President's Commission on Disability Issues
President's Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues
Campus Assessment Committee
Campus Awards Committee
Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
Nyumburu Cultural Center Advisory Committee
Office of Multiethnic Student Education Mentoring Program
Office of Multiethnic Student Education Retention/Success 2000 Conference Committee
Black Student Union Campus Mentoring Big Advisory Board

University-Wide Ad Hoc

Vice President for Student Affairs Search Committee
Director of Admissions Search Committee
Diverse Democracy Project
President's Diversity Panel's Sub-Committee on Expanding and Better Coordinating Diversity Core and Other Curriculum Programs
President's Diversity Panel's Sub-Committee on Integrating and Better Coordinating Diversity into New Student Orientation Processes
CORE Human Cultural Diversity Courses Diversity Working Group

College/Departmental Sustaining
Library Diversity Committee Adjunct

College/Departmental Ad Hoc

Library Equity Office Search Committee Affiliate
Academy of Leadership ISM Project Executive Director Search Committee
Family Studies Faculty Search Committee
UMPD Campus Police Officer Search Committees

OHRP staff regularly volunteer in response to requests from departments/units across campus for assistance with a variety of programming endeavors.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

OHRP staff participate in diversity-related community outreach with a number of international, national, regional, state-wide, and local entities. These include:

Mid Atlantic Equity Center
Maryland State Department of Education, Office of Equity Assurance and Compliance
Maryland State Teachers Association-NEA
Maryland Multicultural Coalition/State Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (MMC/NAME)
Maryland Human Rights Network
Maryland Alternative Dispute Resolution Coalition
Coalition Against Violence and Extremism (COVE)
Interfaith Fairness Coalition of Maryland
Free State Justice
Prince George's County Human Relations Commission
Prince George's County Public Schools Equity Assurance Office
Howard County Office of Human Rights
Black Jewish Forum of Baltimore
Washington Regional Taskforce Against Campus Prejudice
University System of Maryland Diversity Network

LANGUAGE SKILLS

OHRP staff speak a number of languages in addition to English; these include: Afghan, French, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, and Twe.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Various members of the OHRP staff come from full-time, tenure track faculty appointments at other Carnegie I Research Institutions at which they carried the rank of either assistant or associate professor. Some maintain adjunct appointments with surrounding colleges and universities. Others have developed affiliate relationships and/or appointments with academic departments at the University of Maryland. Many regularly engage in scholarly writing, maintaining active records of publication within their research agendas which focus on: white antiracist identity development; multicultural curriculum transformation; multicultural education and the digital divide; and, multicultural education and the prison industrial complex. Additionally, many are members, and serve on boards, of a number of local, state, regional, national, and international professional organizations related to the academic disciplines in which their research is recognized.